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With generous support from Congress, the Library further developed its security in a climate of heightened alert while continuing to carry out its mission of sustaining, preserving, and making accessible its universal collections. The Congressional Research Service and the Law Library provided Congress with the most current research and analysis relevant to the war on terrorism, homeland security, and many other issues of national and international concern.

Significant acquisitions during the fiscal year included the oldest known Indian book that is intact, a birchbark scroll that is written in Gandhari on Buddhist psychology and that dates from as early as 200 B.C., and a complete set of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, a landmark of botanical literature and natural history illustration. Both were made possible by gifts from the Madison Council and others. In 2003, the Library completed the purchase of the only known copy of the first map to use the name “America,” which was by cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. Funds for the purchase were supplied by appropriated funds from Congress and private contributions from the Discovery Channel, Madison Council member Gerry Lenfest, and others. In addition, by year’s end the Library’s Veterans History Project had received more than 40,000 items documenting the experience of the nation’s veterans and their families.

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